CHARLES’ PERSONAL STATEMENT

A journalist once stated that I am ‘relentless’ - I wasn't sure what she meant at the time but 18 years later, I do!

I am relentless in my fight to show all sufferers that they suffer needlessly at the hands of incompetence and ignorance.

I HATE pointless suffering. I hate bullying. I hate people who intimidate and destroy people’s right to a disorder free, hassle free life.

I have learned a powerful lesson in life…

Perceived weakness and genetic flaws can often pay dividends despite stigma.

I’ve seen it thousands of times.

That’s possibly because I have high functioning autistic spectrum disorder and Attention Deficit Disorder or maybe it’s, also, because I am passionate, belligerent and honest - I have been told “too honest” - AND, maybe it’s all linked?.

I think it’s most probably a mixture of nature and nurture - my dad being the most self-motivated, hardest working man I’ve ever known and my mum with her passion for the health industry, a nurse practitioner and one of the first County Coordinators for HIV and AIDS back in the 80s… growing up with people like them is likely to have a very positive affect on a person for whom very little ‘grey’ exists.

Of course, there were negatives - being a contamination phobic OCD sufferers with health anxiety didn’t bode well in a home in which physical, sexual and other health issues were discussed openly. In hindsight it was often difficult but paid dividends long term - it fuelled my greed for knowledge and steered me towards health as a career. The bullying I endured from pupils and teachers was horrific - being kicked, punched and ridiculed and that was just the teachers, made me terrified of school. The kids responded to teachers by mimicking their behaviours. I was fatty, gay-boy, sissy - why? Because I was quiet, I liked art and reading, most of my friends were girls - but despite all that I never lost a fight, played rugby and rowed at a pretty high level… I was the anxious version of my dad… physically strong but emotionally disordered.

Wanting to study medicine and specialise to become a surgeon was a pip dream halted by a moment at which I came to the conclusion that “panic attacks and scalpels don’t seem like a good match” and my anxiety condition got the better of me, pushing towards the arts… do I regret it? Yes and no because my subsequent training and degree equipped me to help people, albeit through education and not the scalpel.

My background

I was born in Worcestershire, UK in February 1968.

Dad is a Civil Engineer, mum a Nurse Practitioner. I have one brother who is four years younger.

I am married to Beth and have two amazing children, the kids I never thought I would have, Charlie (Likes to be called Chaz) and Florence (Flo).

My background is in media. I am a trained artist and professional photographer/videographer, and I worked in television as a producer/director in my late twenties. I have two professional qualifications, one in Graphic Design from a German University and a degree in Electronic Media and TV.

​I have had over 200 written, audio and video works published. I have produced, directed and presented over 100 video programs including my own TV series. I have contributed to dozens of radio shows and worked on shows such as Gok Wan's series and behind the scenes on dozens of TV series, films, sports stadiums and concert venues across UK and the USA. Beth once co-owned a TV production facility and spent 20 years working in Broadcast TV before leaving to help with the business and of course, raise our two children.

To date (2018) over 30 million people have accessd and used my educational materials and benefitted from my suffering, my recovery and the work of myself and my educational specialists and mental health professionals.

My anxiety disorders

I suffered from anxiety issues from age 4 till I was 2​6 and it ruined 2​2 years of my life experience.
I had OCD, panic disorder, agoraphobia, separation anxiety, health anxiety, eating disorders, panic disorder, derealization, depersonalization, low mood, ROCD, HOCD and a massive range of ever changing, symptoms and thoughts.

I had been told that 
- I would have to manage high anxiety and mental health issues for the rest of my life
- I would have to compromise on my career and perhaps do part-time charity work my entire life
- I would always have to take medication
- I would never be able to have children because I wouldn't be able to provide for them fully
- my illness would worsen as I got older
- all of my conditions were incurable and just part of who I was

In 199​6, medicated and having had years of uselss psychotherapy, psychiatry, CBT, NLP and much more, in under a week I became anxiety disorder free.

Not just coping... fully recovered.

I no longer suffer from an anxiety disorder, I like my dad, have an issue with my heart and it's a concern, more for my family than for me really, but I don't focus on it and I get on with life despite it. We all have our issues but they shouldn't be a constant conscious focus. I live life as fully as possible and wake every day with one aim... to help others.

PLEASE LISTEN CAREFULLY...

I am not a psychologist, but I suffered for 2​2 years and have since helped millions of people with my materials... 270,000 plus with the home learning program alone.

This isn't some concocted BS 'self-help' program, it's the ONLY accredited, dedicated recovery therapy and, most importantly, it works. In fact... it can't fail.

FEEL REASSURED - The reason that everything else has failed to cure you is because NOTHING available through psychology or medicine CAN cure you... its science is wrong. The practitioners (mostly) haven't got a clue how you feel, why you feel it or what to do about it.

You are told that you must manage your anxiety, learn coping strategies and continue to suffer... but you suffer because of practitioner incompetence​ not because you are ill or incurable.

If ​recovery isn't possible, I wouldn't have gone from chronic to completely recovered and the tens of thousands of people we have helped to recover would still be suffering.

You suffer because you haven't yet been shown the solution and the reason for that is simple... you've been speaking to the wrong people, despite what they might ​tell you.

So how did I feel the day I recovered?

It's very easy to remember how recovery felt because I still feel the same way today. 

I remember the feeling of lightness. I felt like a weight had lifted. I felt excited and focused. It was a feeling I had never previously experienced. It led me to so many realizations... the exposure of so many truths.

​
- every single anxiety sufferer can recover.
- medication cannot remove neurological responses to cure an anxiety disorder.
- no talking therapy works. It can't. It is scientifically flawed.
- flooding or exposure therapy will not cure an anxiety disorder. It can't.
- hypnotherapy cannot cure anxiety disorders.
- there is NO evidence for the curative efficacy of CBT - no trial data, no real people testimonials. *Only peer reviews. 

* 'Peer reviewing' is the way that practitioners ask other practitioners to state that what they do works, even in the absence of real evidence. They believe that if they do something and ask a friend to state that they saw it 'working', they have evidence... no, they just have compliant friends.

​Since I recovered I have helped ​millions of people to understand their conditions and through the Educational Organisation we now run, we deliver recovery practitioner accreditation at a professional level and we offer home access, workshop, residential and corporate/schools/university recovery courses.​

What happened to me?

My anxiety condition started at birth but, in 1972, it became a serious issue… I was 4 years old.

Ok my anxiety fluctuated during my early life, but I was agoraphobic, school phobic and had OCD for 23 years.

I was always on the verge of a panic attack, if not, right in the middle of one and the urge to run... from myself actually... was constant and overwhelming.

I was 60lbs overweight, but hardly ate.

I was taking 60mg of Valium a day. 

I was taking either Prozac or Zispin.

I was on Stelazine.

I was drinking Rescue Remedy like water.

I was having CBT, NLP, psychiatry and other weird and wonderful therapies.

What changed?

Everything changed.

After 22 years of anxiety, phobias, obsessions, compulsions, panic and low mood... medication and therapy.... I was completely anxiety disorder free in under 5 days.

Day one the panic attacks and OCD WENT. 

Days two to five... the rest faded away. Permanently.

So what did I do?

I inadvertently discovered the cure for all anxiety ​conditions.

Seriously, I discovered how to switch off all inappropriate emotional responses and now, 2​3 years later, what I discovered has been confirmed hundreds of times by research psychologists and doctors to be THE solution.

What did I do then? I recovered

I gave the solution to dozens of sufferers and guess what? They recovered too.

They would contact me to ask questions...

"Charles what would you do if you...
- had to take a flight?
- give a speech?
- are about to have a baby?
- experience X symptom?
- have an abusive partner?
- use drugs?
- are alcoholic?

... and the lists of questions went on and on.

I compiled lists of all these questions and I created Cds and videos to answer the questions... and as time went on, it turned into a pretty huge library of answers to most questions.

It was at this point that TLM was born. 

We became an educational organisation.​ We employed clinical psychotherapists, counsellors and psychologists to assist us in research and administering the therapy. It then became an accredited treatment choice. 

I no longer involved in the daily running of the organisations, that I leave to the people who manage the programs carrying the Charles Linden and Linden Method trademarked brands.

Now, LTL is a CPD accredited educational organisation, work in partnership with government Trading Standards, it is NICE compliant, a member of the United Kingdom Register of Learning Providers, members of the Association for Coaching 

Our team are LAR, MBACP & BPS accredited/members.

...and we love what the programs do to change lives.

BUT… We all have our crosses to bear.

My family are my life.

My son was born blind in one eye and as a result has a variety of associated educational issues. He too has suffered with anxiety in the past and experienced severe bullying at school. He now helps other young people with similar issues. My wife, Beth, suffers from a genetic disorder which causes constant high level pain, which makes it very difficult to walk more than 20 metres and it gets worse each year that passes. I have a genetic heart complaint which has been passed on from my dad, grandmother and great grandfather.

BUT we are grateful for every day that gives us the opportunity to breathe and help people who deserve happiness and wellness.

The bullying continues today - but not by students - by psychologists, doctors of psychology, charity heads and their merry band of ‘followers’ who are primed to attack, threaten ridicule and undermine me, my family, our friends, clients and organisations we work with.

They make up and publicise the worst kind of lies, leave negative feedback about us wherever they can, file reports against us with governing bodies and do so without having to expose their true identities - these are people with families… people who spend hundreds upon hundreds of hours across decades on attacking our reputations - people who have become obsessed with stopping us from helping others in the unique, selfless and legitimate way we do.

People who have threatened my children’s lives to keep their organisation buoyant with plenty of anxiety sufferers.

Why? I’ll leave that with you, but when people threaten your kids lives to make you stop curing people, their intent is not even vaguely well-meaning… is it?

These people don’t want to fight, ‘like men’, they hide behind their credentials and keyboards threatening kids and spreading gossip feeling safe in the knowledge that it won’t catch up with them.

I’ve helped over 350,000 appreciative clients; those people are literally all over the world. One such bully was surprised to discover that their boss’ daughter is one of our cured ex clients!

They threaten to expose us, but only for the lies they tell about us.

They manufacture posts, send fake images and screen grabs to people.

They create fake accounts on social media in my name and post images of fat bald men and then post as me.

They make up stories about mistreatment and us bullying people.

They do all they can to undermine us, our families, our qualifications and our work.

They contact clients, friends and family members, they even pay people to come to our courses to spy on us.

They manipulate our words, try to find fault in everything we do even our spelling mistakes and website errors.

They contact us calling us names, making references to my baldness, the way my wife looks, my children.

They follow and intimidate my kids on social media and make comments on their posts.

They publish posts ridiculing people with learning disabilities.

They employ journalists to do their dirty work, to lie about us, contact our friends, harass and threaten them.

My child had to leave a school because of them… but the persist with total disregard for my children, my wife and our clients and friends. One of our clients ended up trying to take their life because of their contact.

But still they continue - to what end? My demise? My kids’ becoming ill or worse?

They have no morals, but if they harm my wife or my children again, by any means, whoever is involved will wish they’d never started this vile witch hunt.